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A compilation of bills and data concerning Ohio Sexual Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) laws also referred to as Chapter 2950. This page provides the same data the Ohio General Assembly does, yet in one easy to use place without having to filter through the hundreds of bills on other subjects. There is also you will see a table of the status of each bill. Updated the first week of each month. Additionally, the links in the status table are a link to a PDF of the Senate or House Journal report for that day. Finally, it should be noted that all of the data here is unofficial. For PDF versions please right click and select save as, thank you.
To see how the General Assembly works and the Legislative process in Ohio. this is an excellent guide of how a law is made. (PDF) Also how a bill becomes a law.
129th General Assembly - 2011/2012
Welcome to the new format. Several features have been added. Such as links to the pages on Ohio Legislator page of the committees, sponsors and the bill for each bill. Above is a list of all relevant bills for this General Assembly with the status of the bill and a link to more info. Also you will see links to the bills and other related documents. Finally the links to the Journals at the date of any activity for each bill. The journals many times have no real info and other times contain great amounts of info. It is highly suggested you check those out also in your research. Please remember to right click and save as on PDF files.
Status of all legislation as of 03-04-2011 (PDF)
The 129th is updated to the date above concerning the status of legislation. It is also best to check the Legislators page and journals for the most current data.
Senate Bill No. 76 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offenders-prohibit court-ordered changes of name
To amend section 2717.01 of the Revised Code to prohibit a court from ordering a statutory change of name for a person who has committed identity fraud or who must register under the SORN Law for having committed a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense.
Sponsored by: Skindell Cosponsors: Bacon Turner Hughes Smith Brown
Ohio General Assembly Link to this bill
Senate Bill No. 70 - 129th General Assembly - Arson offender registry
To enact sections 2909.13, 2909.14, and 2909.15 of the Revised Code to establish a registry for arson offenders.
Sponsored by: Schaffer
Ohio General Assembly Link to this bill
Senate Bill No. 68 - 129th General Assembly - Sexually oriented offenders-residence/clarify registration requirement
To amend sections 2950.02, 2950.034, and 2950.04 of the Revised Code to specify that the restriction against offenders convicted of a sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense establishing or occupying a residence near school, preschool, or child day-care premises generally applies regardless of when the offense was committed or the offender began living in the residence, to provide an exemption from the ban for offenders who occupy residential premises they or their spouse own at the time of occupancy and also owned prior to the ban's effective date, and to specify that a registration requirement for children adjudicated delinquent for a sexually oriented offense and classified a juvenile offender registrant applies regardless of when the offense was committed.
Sponsored by: Schaffer Cosponsors: Stewart Hughes Beagle Manning
Ohio General Assembly Link to this bill
Senate Bill No. 44 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offender-prohibit from possessing photo of victim while imprisoned
To enact section 2950.17 of the Revised Code to prohibit a convicted sex offender from possessing a photograph of the offender's victim while the offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense and to prohibit a child-victim offender from possessing a photograph of any minor child while the child-victim offender is serving a term of confinement for that offense. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That section 2950.17 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows: Sec. 2950.17. (A) Regardless of when the sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense was committed, a person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense or a person who is or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense shall not possess a photograph of the victim of the sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense while the person is serving any prison term, jail term, community residential sanction, or other term of confinement imposed on the offender for the offense. (B) Regardless of when the child-victim oriented offense was committed, a person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to a child-victim oriented offense or a person who is or has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing a child-victim oriented offense shall not possess a photograph of any minor child while the person is serving any prison term, jail term, community residential sanction, or other term of confinement imposed on the offender for the offense. (C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of illegal possession of a prohibited photograph, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
This bill needs to be somewhere beside Chapter 2950, yet here it is.
Sponsored by: Kearney Cosponsors:
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House Bill No. 86 - 129th General Assembly - Criminal law and procedure-changes
To amend sections 109.42, 307.93, 309.18, 341.12, 926.99, 1333.99,1707.99, 1716.99, 2743.191, 2909.03, 2909.05, 2909.11, 2913.01, 2913.02, 2913.03, 2913.04, 2913.11, 2913.21, 2913.31, 2913.32, 2913.34, 2913.40, 2913.401, 2913.42, 2913.421, 2913.43, 2913.45, 2913.46, 2913.47, 2913.48, 2913.49, 2913.51, 2913.61, 2915.05, 2917.21, 2917.31, 2917.32, 2919.21, 2921.13, 2921.34, 2921.41, 2923.31, 2925.01, 2925.03, 2925.05, 2925.11, 2929.01, 2929.13, 2929.14, 2929.20, 2929.26, 2929.34, 2930.16, 2930.17, 2950.99, 2951.041, 2967.05, 2967.14, 2967.193, 2967.28, 2981.07, 4507.51, 5120.07, 5120.10, 5120.111, 5120.59, 5120.60, 5120.66, 5149.01, 5149.10, 5149.33, and 5149.34 and to enact sections 307.932, 2967.19, 5120.035, and 5120.113 of the Revised Code to increase from $500 to $1,000 the threshold amount for determining increased penalties for theft-related offenses and for certain elements of "vandalism" and "engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity"; to increase by 50% the other threshold amounts for determining increased penalties for those offenses; to revise and clarify the law regarding prosecution of multiple theft, Medicaid fraud, workers' compensation fraud, and similar offenses and the valuation of property or services involved; to include workers' compensation fraud as a theft offense; to provide that if "nonsupport of dependents" is based on an abandonment of or failure to support a child or a person to whom a court order requires support and is a felony the sentencing court generally must first consider placing the offender on one or more community control sanctions; to eliminate the difference in criminal penalties for crack cocaine and powder cocaine; to revise some of the penalties for trafficking in marihuana or hashish and for possession of marihuana, cocaine, or hashish; to revise procedures for notification of victims when violent offenders escape from the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; to modify the number of Parole Board members required to conduct a full Board hearing; to limit a member of the Parole Board who is not the Chairperson or a victim representative to two six-year terms; to revise the eligibility criteria for, and procedures governing, intervention in lieu of conviction; to revise the eligibility criteria for judicial release; to reduce the penalty for the offense of "escape" when it involves certain conduct by a person under supervised release by the Department; to revise the procedure for prisoners in state correctional institutions to earn days of credit for productive participation in specified prison programs and the number of days of credit that may be earned; to require GPS monitoring of a prisoner placed on post-release control who was released early from prison due to earning 60 or more days of credit; to enact a new mechanism for the possible release with sentencing court approval of certain Department inmates who have served at least 85% of their prison term; to expand the membership of a county's local corrections planning board; to expand the authorization to transfer certain Ohio prisoners for pretrial confinement to a contiguous county in an adjoining state to also apply to postconviction confinement and confinement upon civil process; to make changes regarding halfway houses and community residential centers and authorize reentry centers; to allow placement in a skilled nursing facility for care of an inmate who is released on indefinite parole due to being in imminent danger of death, medically incapacitated, or terminally ill; to provide for the establishment and operation of community alternative sentencing centers for misdemeanants sentenced directly to the centers under a community residential sanction or an OVI term of confinement not exceeding 30 days; to change the membership of the Ex-offender Reentry Coalition by reducing the number and functions of members from the Governor's office and adding the Director of Veterans Services; to remove judges from the membership of a corrections commission and instead have them form an advisory board; to require the Department to develop a reentry plan for each inmate committed to the Department who was not sentenced to a term of life without parole or a sentence of death and who is expected to be imprisoned for more than 30 days; to revise the procedures governing the Department's issuance of an inmate identification card upon an inmate's release and the use of such a card to obtain a state identification card; to authorize, instead of require, the Department to discontinue subsidy payment to a political subdivision that reduces local funding for corrections by the amount of a community-based corrections subsidy or that uses a subsidy for capital improvements; to require the Department, together with the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services, to develop an implementation plan related to funding through the federal Second Chance Act related to community reentry of offenders; and to specify that the report and recommendations of the Council of State Governments' Justice Reinvestment in Ohio Study is to be considered in the bill.
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2950.99(A)(2)(b) In addition to any penalty or sanction imposed under division (A)(1)(b)(i), (ii), or (iii) of this section or any other provision of law for a violation of a prohibition in section 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, or 2950.06 of the Revised Code, if the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to, or previously has been adjudicated a delinquent child for committing, a violation of a prohibition in section 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.05, or 2950.06 of the Revised Code when the most serious sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense that was the basis of the requirement that was violated under the prohibition is a felony if committed by an adult or a comparable category of offense committed in another jurisdiction, the court imposing a sentence upon the offender shall impose a definite prison term of no less than three years. The definite prison term imposed under this section is not restricted by division (B) of section 2929.14 of the Revised Code and, subject to division (C) of section 2967.19 of the Revised Code, shall not be reduced to less than three years pursuant to any provision of Chapter 2967. or any other provision of the Revised Code.
It basically creates a new mechanism for the possible release with sentencing court approval of inmates with registration based offenses who have served at least 85% (and at least one year) of their prison term.
Sponsored by: Blessing Cosponsors: Heard
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House Bill No. 77 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offender registration law-clarification
To amend sections 2152.02, 2152.851, 2152.86, 2950.01, 2950.03, 2950.04, 2950.041, 2950.06, 2950.07, 2950.08, and 2950.13, to enact sections 2950.035, 2950.036, and 2950.037, and to repeal sections 2950.031, 2950.032, 2950.033, and 2950.043 of the Revised Code to clarify that SORN Law definitions of sexually oriented offenses, child-victim oriented offenses, tier classifications, public registry-qualified juvenile offender registrants, and related terms include the specified offenses regardless of when they were committed and to provide for court reclassification of offenders and delinquent children who committed their sexually oriented offense or child-victim oriented offense prior to January 1, 2008, and had SORN Law duties based on that offense into one of the tier classifications of the current SORN Law.
Sponsored by: Hackett Cosponsors: Garland Blessing Combs Grossman Hottinger Patmon
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House Bill No. 37 - 129th General Assembly - Homeless sex offenders-registration/GPS monitoring if Tier III/predator
To amend sections 2950.01, 2950.03, 2950.04, 2950.041, and 2950.05 of the Revised Code to require that a registrant under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Law who does not have a fixed residence address provide a detailed description of the places at which the registrant intends to stay upon initial registration and, if the registrant is a Tier III registrant, a predator, or in another specified category, be monitored by an active global positioning system device until the registrant acquires a fixed residence address.
Sponsored by: Luckie Cosponsors: Combs
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House Bill No. 24 - 129th General Assembly - Sex offender-notice to long-term care facility-reside in or near
To amend sections 2950.01, 2950.11, 2950.12, and 2950.13 of the Revised Code to provide notice to a long-term care facility when a Tier III or similar category sex offender/child-victim offender indicates an intent to reside in the facility or registers an address within the specified geographical notification area including the facility.
Sponsored by: Combs Cosponsors: Wachtmann Patmon Garland Derickson Maag Fedor Adams, J. Blessing Beck O'Brien
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